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Pilot project aims to protect vulnerable restaurant workers (Toronto Star)
Tues., Aug. 30, 2016
Ontario’s Ministry of Labour is launching a new initiative to prevent abuse in the restaurant industry, after sustained criticism for failing to hold law-breaking bosses to account, the Star has learned.
The pilot project will bring together employers and labour groups to identify major risks to workers’ rights in the sector, according to ministry documents obtained by the Star. It will be led by the ministry’s corporate risk officer, Sujoy Dey, who spearheaded a similar process to reduce accidents, injuries, and deaths in Ontario mines.
Labour groups have repeatedly identified the restaurant industry as one of the worst for workplace violations, and Star investigations into wage theft across the province — and in particular the — have revealed around one third of stolen entitlements in Ontario are never recovered. Workers have lost out on $28 million over the past six years because the ministry failed to collect the money owed to them, recent research shows.
In a statement to the Star, a Ministry of Labour spokesperson confirmed that the project would launch this fall, and would work with “key stakeholders representing employers and employees in the restaurant sector.”
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The pilot project will bring together employers and labour groups to identify major risks to workers’ rights in the sector, according to ministry documents obtained by the Star. It will be led by the ministry’s corporate risk officer, Sujoy Dey, who spearheaded a similar process to reduce accidents, injuries, and deaths in Ontario mines.
Labour groups have repeatedly identified the restaurant industry as one of the worst for workplace violations, and Star investigations into wage theft across the province — and in particular the — have revealed around one third of stolen entitlements in Ontario are never recovered. Workers have lost out on $28 million over the past six years because the ministry failed to collect the money owed to them, recent research shows.
In a statement to the Star, a Ministry of Labour spokesperson confirmed that the project would launch this fall, and would work with “key stakeholders representing employers and employees in the restaurant sector.”
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Link: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/08/30/pilot-project-aims-to-protect-vulnerable-restaurant-workers.html